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Trombonist, improviser, composer and arranger, Filippo Vignato has born in Northern Italy in 1987.
Graduated summa cum laude at the CNSM of Paris he is nowadays conducting and intense performing and recording activity in Italy and around Europe as a sideman and as a leader.
He is active in different fields of jazz and improvised music, embracing contemporary music, free jazz and world music.
In September 2016 he released ‘Plastic Breath’ his first album as a leader alongside french pianist Yannick Lestra on fender rhodes and hungarian drummer Attila Gyarfas. He leads also ‘Elongate’, a duo with Enzo Carniel on piano about the music of Albert Mangelsdorff.
His music or the music he performs is often broadcasted by Italian national radio RadioRai3 and he is part of the ‘Giovanni Guidi Rebel Band’ of ECM artist Giovanni Guidi.
With the band OMIT FIVE got first prize as best band at Barga Jazz Contest 2011 and at Premio Delle Arti 2011 of MIUR. Also got the ‘Best Soloist Prize’ at the Barga Jazz Contest 2011.
From 2011 he is playing in various projects of sardinian reeds and traditional instruments player Enzo Favata, including ‘The New Village’, featuring the sardinian vocal quartet ‘Tenores di Bitti’.
In 2008 founds with the fellows Frank Martino, Stefano Dallaporta and Diego Pozzan the electro- jazz quintet MOF QUINTET with whom they record the albums ‘Embarrassing Days’ (2009) and ‘Fried Generation’ (2013).
He played in the most well known clubs an festivals in Italy (Umbria Jazz, Umbria Jazz Winter, Time in Jazz Berchidda, Fano Jazz, Fiemme Ski-jazz, Venezia Jazz, Veneto Jazz, Young Jazz Foligno, Festival di Nuova Musica di Macerata, Jazz Club Ferrara, Padova Jazz Club, Roma Casa Del Jazz, Villa Celimontana Jazz Festival Cross- Roads Emilia Romagna, Festambiente Sud, Narni Black Festival, Alghero Jazz tra gli altri) and in Europe, like Festival Jazz à la Villette (Paris), Hear Palmer (Bordeaux), Jazz sous les Pommiers (Coutances), Edinburgh Jazz Festival (Scotland), Valijevo Jazz Fest (Serbija) , Bimhuis (Amsterdam) among the others.
As a sideman he has worked among the others for: Giovanni Guidi, Rosa Brunello, Alfonso Santimone, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Piero Bittolo Bon, Vinko Globokar, Enzo Favata, Tommaso Cappellato, Glauco Venier, Roberto Spadoni, Gemma Farrell, Michele Corcella, Lionel and Stephane Belmondo, Enzo Carniel, Ada Montellanico, Vincent Le Quang, Hervé Sellin, Zeno de Rossi.
He played all over Italy and in Austria, Switzerland, Germany, France, Belgium, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbija, Russia, The Netherlands and Scotland.